• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header left navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Blog
  • Reading Lists
  • Alaska
  • 17 Beats – 2019

Jennifer Searls

Window Thinking

January 2014 Reading

January 31, 2014 by Jennifer

After turning in my best reading year ever, it felt like 2014 got off to a really slow start. At the end of the first week I had only completed one book and it was a Little House on the Prairie read aloud I’d started with the boys in December! David enjoyed the lead and gloated  about his ever increasing list while I grumbled about my lack of focus. (In retrospect, I think my reading time was spent catching up on Downton Abbey. So THAT’S what everybody’s been talking about these recent years! Book literacy has significant impact on my television literacy!!!)

I flew to Oregon by myself the second weekend in January and not having to manage boy details, I got to spend  both flights reading.  I found the groove. And so in the end I turn in a really nice January list. These are my favorites:

Line Dance. I LOVE Barbara Crooker’s poetry. (I took a 4 week poetry class last fall which moved poetry into the top tier of my genre priorities these days. I found Crooker in November and now have several of her collections thanks to birthday and Christmas lists.)

Diana Wynne Jones. Really smart, funny, accessible fantasy. Shades of Harry Potter without the darkness? Ryan says, “she’s really good with magic” and he’s so right. We read her Howl’s Moving Castle series in the fall and we’re on the second volume of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci now. Lots of fun! Many thanks to my sister Alyson for getting us started.

Apparently I’ve got a theme going with The Silent Wife and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Gone Girl is sitting on the table to be read. Just to be clear, I’m NOT selling stuff to hire an assassin (The Silent Wife) and 15+ years into my marriage I believe I can say alongside Ann Patchett, “….with the full force of his life, with the example of his kindness and vigilance, his good sense and equanimity, he makes me a better person. ”

I am grateful.

And gloating. I read 7 books in January. He read 6.

Category: Reading
Previous Post: « My Reflections on NYT Article: The Art of Presence
Next Post: I Want To Talk #menstruationmatters Tampons in the cabinet »

Sidebar

Send Me A Reminder!

Weekly, monthly.....whatever frequency it turns out to be, please send me emails to remind me to check here for new content. And I'll unsubscribe whenever I don't want that reminder anymore! 

Thank you!

You will receive a confirmation instruction in your email box. Please  respond to that in order to complete this sign up process!

.

Recent Posts

  • Exploring The Redwoods & Coastal Towns
  • Eagle Creek Trail
  • Green River Soda
  • change the flavor change the season
  • tourist season

©2012-2021 Jennifer Searls